THE QUALITY CODE

At last for our species: the quality code. Since the year 2000 Tamara Starl-Latour has been adding little coded messages about character and qualities to some of her portraits. The key to those will be accessible after her death.

What might be irritating, misleading or seem wrong today could be deciphered and explained anew.

This is meant as a statement by the artist against the present idea, that everything in the here-and-now has to be conceivable and understandable. So she thinks that distinguishing features and personality are merging more and more and the individual is bound to go under in mainstream- and art is drifting towards craft without claim to value, off into mediocrity.